“Based on her past successes and her current platform, Dee Williams best represents the needs of young people in this election.”
![MAKING COMMUNITIES STRONGER: “There is no selfishness with [AmeriCorps team members]," says Kate Justen, executive director of local nonprofit FEAST. "They are obviously not doing this work for the money. They just want to make their communities stronger and more sustainable.”](https://mountainx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Children-First-CIS-Project-Americorps-330x243.jpg)
Buncombe County has benefited from 20 years of Project POWER/AmeriCorps service in the community
“Take action! Contact your representatives and ask them to protect this program that turns minimal financial investments into huge returns for our most vulnerable children, veterans and the environment.”
Total eclipse of the park
Asheville, N.C.
Letter: Brevard Road, an unattended speedway, part 2
“I requested [a speed test] for Brevard Road a few months ago and was shocked to learn that there are approximately 8,685 vehicles/day and that the 85th percentile was 37 mph.”
Sounds messy
Asheville, N.C.
Appalachian orchids: hidden gems of the mountain forests
” We are learning that many plant species in the forest, from trees to orchids, plug into the underground network of fungi for supplemental nutrition and for a means of communication. … The orchids of the Blue Ridge are a window into this underground network of fungi-plant relationships.”
Letter: Celebrating local trailblazer Holly Boswell
“‘We need to recognize that each of us, in our own small way, are makers of our culture,'” Boswell wrote then. “‘We can exercise that function best by expressing our true selves, not by simply fulfilling our culture’s expectations. We are all in transition …'”
Letter: Bothwell best choice for Asheville City Council
“The positions that Cecil takes are based on his determination to be a voice for residents and our quality of life.”
Letter: Vote Kapoor for neighborhood involvement
“If elected, he would advocate for greater involvement of neighborhood representatives in the City Council’s planning and decision-making.”
Open borers
Asheville N.C.
Letter: Yoga festival was awesome
“To walk the streets of Asheville and see a rainbow of people engaging in wellness, health and larger discussions of access and change is exactly what we need, right now.”
Letter: Stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline!
“This $5.5 billion, 42-inch diameter, 600-mile pipeline carrying fracked gas under high pressure would run from West Virginia through Virginia and across Eastern North Carolina, threatening pristine forests, headwaters, hundreds of streams, as well as many farms and communities.”
Letter: Don’t rewrite history, just get rid of the monuments
“Tolerating monuments such as the Vance obelisk teaches young people that the ownership of slaves was not important and certainly nothing to be considered shameful. But it is important and it is shameful, particularly in Asheville, where the ideal of social equality is so widely embraced.”
Letter: Facts show the Civil War was over slavery
“Finally, if we are to remember our history as it actually happened, we need to place equally large monuments for those who suffered generations of brutal enslavement near every Confederate monument.”
In with a bang
Asheville, N.C.
Letter: Veterans for Peace call for peace and justice
“Active nonviolent resistance is at its best when it does not focus on condemnation, but on healing, forgiveness, compassion and love, calling for democratic change.”
War for the plan of the apes
Asheville, N.C.
Letter: Article explains food insecurity in our foodie town
“I have appreciated the paper’s efforts to go into more depth about the conditions that face all the communities within our community, whether that be education, transportation, housing, employment, sprawl and now food access.”
Letter: New approach needed, not manufacturing incentives
“Looking for creative businesses that don’t require raw materials to be shipped in and products to be shipped out means that we can minimize our greatest weakness while working on our strengths.”
Letter: Asheville has long history of institutional racism
“Very little has changed here since I was co-captain of the first integrated Asheville High football team and learned much about how Asheville has stacked the deck against nonwhites, and frankly that has not changed nearly as much as it should have over the years.”
Letter: Missing ‘Cranky Hanke’
“I really do not care how big the reviewer’s vocabulary is, I just want to know if the movie is worth seeing or not.”